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the Duke of Buckingham's reply, Colonial Office Despatch No111 of the 15th of September
1867.
the
I take those Despatches to.
Despatches to mean that Surveyor General is not to embark in
private practice
his
as a
regular occupation for
personal profit lest his time and
attention should be drawn from Government
interests to his
own
private
concerns to the
it was
detriment of the former. Certainly not the Secretary of State's intention to seal
the Surveyor General's lips against giving
a
single word of professional advice except
to the Excentive.
14. In order to ensure
construction,
safety of
our local statutes provide
that plans and designs of all structures shall be previously submitted for the___
inspection and approval of the Surveyor General. effter satisfying myself in the
first instance that
with the law in res
every design complies respect of safety, I have deviated somewhat from the course adopted by my predecessors, by making it a -matter of practice to send unofficially
for the parties interested in the plans before me, and to point out to them in
friendly and conversational
way whatever breaches I may notiee in their.
a
projects against art and good taste, sanitation, domestic comfort ele., advice which is invariably received in the same good spirit that is proffered - and resulting often as not in a complete remodelling
as
of their original designs. To this system
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